{"id":58927,"date":"2025-03-21T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58927"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T06:20:55","slug":"58927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58927","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Terence_Howard_and_Elements.jpg\" alt=\"Terence Howard and Elements\" width=\"600\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Terence_Howard_and_Elements.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Terence_Howard_and_Elements-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Terrance Howard, the actor in the first Iron Man, said that the periodic table is wrong. It shouldn\u2019t be a grid, but circles as elements are organized in octaves and hertz.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He believes this new periodic table provides a more accurate representation of the elements and their interactions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Terrence quit college, where he was studying Chemical Engineering, because he disagreed with his professor about the periodic table. The table is usually shown as a rectangle, but Terrence believed the elements actually follow a spiral pattern and are connected.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He noticed that hydrogen, carbon, silicon, and cobalt showed the same color on a spectrometer, repeating in a pattern like musical notes across octaves. He wanted to redesign the table to match this idea but later found out that someone named Walter Russell had already created a version of the table based on a similar curved pattern.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Terrence says this table doesn\u2019t show how the elements are connected. He explains that elements have both color and sound \u2014 and the sound can be measured. For example, Hydrogen has a sound frequency of 40.5 Hz, and Carbon has 81 Hz. Carbon\u2019s sound is double that of Hydrogen, but they still share the same wave. The elements are connected by the same wave, but their wavelengths vary in predictable patterns.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Terrence believes these connections are important to show because they help us understand the basics of the universe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrance Howard, the actor in the first Iron Man, said that the periodic table is wrong. It shouldn\u2019t be a grid, but circles as elements are organized in octaves and hertz. He believes this new periodic table provides a more accurate representation of the elements and their interactions. 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